P3 corporate collapse highlights risks of privatization
The collapse of Carillion, a global privatization corporation, illustrates the risky nature of public-private partnerships (P3s) and contracting out. Carillion...
The collapse of Carillion, a global privatization corporation, illustrates the risky nature of public-private partnerships (P3s) and contracting out. Carillion...
On 10 January, the local court of Saint Petersburg, Russia, ruled that ITUWA should be liquidated claiming the union conducted...
Education unions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have launched a joint programme for study circles in schools aimed...
The twenty Fondation de l’UQAM employees have been without a contract since being certified in 2015. Three years in, their...
Education organisations firmly condemn President Trump’s “vile and unacceptable” comments Topics in this post: Education International’s affiliates, the American Federation...
15.01.2018 Hundreds of workers from IndustriALL affiliate, the Mineworkers Union of Namibia (MUN), from the Rosh Pinah branch, demonstrated against...
CUPE has adopted an action plan to help ensure workers have the protection of a union, and the collective power...
CUPE NB applauds the provincial government’s investment to enact free childcare for low-income families and raise salaries of early-learning and...
11.01.2018 Indian-owned Griffin Coal is involved in a two-year long dispute with IndustriALL Australian affiliate AMWU at the Collie coal...
Zambia: Government must act to mitigate lost learning time due to cholera outbreak Topics in this post: In Zambia, a...
Close to 1,500 workers voted in favour of union representation at the auto parts manufacturer. The company has a workforce...
Pro refuses to agree to the cuts and 3,000 members across the industry have been on an indefinite overtime ban...
12.01.2018 11 union representatives of the Volkswagen Employees’ Union in Pune, India, have gone on hunger strike, protesting against the...
The Manitoba Government’s proposal to introduce a shared-risk target-benefit pension plan model in Manitoba raises concerns. “The Pallister government’s pension plan...
The International Alliance in Support of Workers in Iran (IASWI) was formed in 1999 in Toronto-Canada and formally announced its formation in January 2000. In nearly two decades of continuous activism, we have played an impactful role in securing international support for Iranian workers’ struggles against the Islamic Republic of Iran, employers, and the inhumane conditions the capitalist order has imposed on working-class lives in Iran. During these years, our politics and the foundational basis guiding our activism have been predicated on working-class traditions with an uncompromising emphasis on working-class independence and autonomy.